Chapter 52: Selling Dan

  Lin Feng's face was shocked, he didn't expect the beautiful woman who had a smile on her face just now to suddenly get angry. Looking at the various eyes around him, Lin Feng felt a bit helpless and also a little ashamed, if it were something else, he would probably turn around and leave.

  But having identified the thing with Bao Yu, he would not give up so easily. He said somewhat awkwardly: "I have some spiritual pills here, I don't know if they can be used in place of the spiritual stone?"

  The woman corrected her anger and put down the jade slip on the counter, but as soon as she heard about the spiritual elixir, she stopped. Just now, she naturally thought that Lin Feng's words were mostly about borrowing, owing, or buying on credit, so she immediately reacted, but didn't expect Lin Feng to say that he would use the elixir as a substitute.

  Alas, elixirs! If spirit stones are equivalent to copper coins in the mortal realm, then elixirs are like gold. They are a hard currency in the cultivation world, even harder than spirit stones. Especially elixirs like Qi-Boosting Pills and Minor Restoration Pills that are essential for improving one's cultivation, they never worry about being sold. If a cultivator doesn't have spirit stones, he can endure it, at most just spending less, but without these elixirs, his cultivation will slow down, and if he can't break through by a certain age, it means he'll fall behind. Therefore, not taking elixirs is unbearable. As a result, elixirs are actually more valuable than ordinary spirit stones.

  "I should have said so earlier, I thought you... Hehe, but we have a dan master here who specializes in buying dan medicine. I'll take you to him and hand over the jade slip as well. We can settle everything together after selling the dan medicine." The female cultivator's facial expression changed quickly, and she was smiling again in an instant.

  Lin Feng nodded his head in agreement with the female cultivator's proposal, and followed her through a small door. A huge room appeared before their eyes, filled to the brim with all sorts of spiritual pills and medicinal materials, as well as numerous cabinets divided into countless compartments, suggesting that there were also many spiritual medicines inside.

  Lin Feng knew at a glance that this was probably the storage room for Baibao Hall's medicinal materials. The Yang family also had such a place, but there were far fewer medicinal materials than here. Three or four Qi-refining stage cultivators were busy, while a single Foundation Establishment stage middle-aged cultivator sat behind the desk at the entrance, flipping through a book of medicines with great leisure.

  "Master Zhu, there's a customer here who wants to sell some dan medicine. Would you mind appraising it? And while you're at it, please trade this jade slip with him for 1,000 low-grade spirit stones." The female cultivator said, placing the jade slip on the table. Seeing Master Zhu nod his head, she smiled at Lin Feng and then turned to leave.

  Zhu surname cultivator apparently was used to handling such matters, after extending his hand to invite Lin Feng to sit down, he said: "Please ask the Taoist friend what kind of pill you plan to sell, bring it out and let me appraise it, I will naturally give you a fair price."

  Lin Feng had long been prepared, his hand reached into the storage bag, but from the Panlong Ring he took out two bottles of Qi Dan and said: "Please, senior, estimate a price." He didn't take out any other first-class Dan because those Dans were originally used in small quantities, usually just preparing a little for backup, so he hadn't refined many.

  Zhu surname Dan Shi picked up a bottle, didn't open it to smell, just turned the jade bottle around and looked at it once, then quoted: "Six Ling Stones per piece." Then he picked up another bottle and took a look, after examining Lin Feng's eyes, he said: "This bottle is not bad, seven Ling Stones for one, do you have any more?"

  Lin Feng nodded and asked: "Will you accept all of it?"

  Mr. Zhu nodded and said, "Of course, for commonly used pills like Tiqi Dan and Xiaopei Yuan Dan, our Baibao Hall has always been honest about the price." Mr. Zhu's spirits lifted greatly after Lin Feng asked him this question, and his tone seemed much more friendly.

  Lin Feng didn't understand why he suddenly became so enthusiastic from the beginning of being cold and taciturn, but he had planned to get rid of those low-grade Qi Gathering Pills today, so he didn't think much about it. His hands kept going in and out of his storage bag, and soon the jade bottles filled with Qi Gathering Pills were lined up on nearly half of the table.

  "A hundred bottles in total, thirty of which are slightly inferior, and seventy of which are better. Please take a look." Lin Feng had originally intended to bring out all 130 or so bottles, but thinking that Liu Jia also needed some goods, he changed his mind at the last minute.

  Zhu surname cultivator nodded, a faint smile finally appearing on his cold face as he examined the elixir while muttering to himself: "En, not bad, technique is pure and proficient, elixir color is rich and lustrous, fellow daoist has been studying alchemy for several years now?"

  Lin Feng listened to his evaluation of the elixir's quality, and as a future alchemist, he also wanted to hear others' opinions for improvement. Seeing that he spoke very impartially, Lin Feng was pleased in his heart. Suddenly hearing him ask this question, Lin Feng casually replied: "About four or five years."

  As soon as he spoke, he knew he was in trouble. Fifteen-year-old alchemy apprentices who could refine nearly two-thirds of the elixirs to near middle-grade were not uncommon, but what was rare was an apprentice who could produce so many high-quality lower-grade elixirs and had a chance of refining middle-grade Qi-gathering elixirs.

  As expected, Zhu Xian smiled even more happily and said: "Is that fellow willing to sell the medium-grade Qi-tonifying Pill? Our sect is willing to pay twenty spirit stones for one pill."

  "No, I can't refine mid-grade Qi Dan, but I see you selling it outside for only 20 spirit stones per piece. You're buying it at 20 spirit stones and not making a profit, are you even covering labor costs?" Lin Feng didn't want to dwell on the mid-grade dan anymore, so he quickly changed the subject after his denial.

  Zhu Xiu smiled slightly and explained seriously, "If it were someone else asking, I would say we're buying mid-grade elixirs at such a high price to attract attention. But since you're also an alchemist, I'll tell the truth - we're actually collecting mid-grade elixirs for our sect's outstanding younger disciples to use."

  Lin Feng nodded, he also knew that the middle-grade elixir was hard to come by. He didn't expect these major sects to be so eager for it, but he couldn't easily reveal that he could refine middle-grade elixirs. So, he continued to speak evasively: "Why not raise the price and buy it? There should be people who can refine it and sell it at a high price."

  "One reason is that this is a commonly used elixir, and even if the price of one Ling stone is increased slightly, it will still be a significant burden in the long run. Another reason is that Yaoguang City is not our family's sole business for selling medicinal elixirs, and the prices of these common elixirs have already been agreed upon, so we can't just set them as we please."

  Zhu surname cultivator surprisingly said so many words, several miscellaneous cultivators in the house who were busy with work all stole glances at him several times, but seeing so many spiritual pills on the table, they all knew he was fabricating Lin Feng's mid-grade Qi Gathering Pill, and thus didn't think it strange.

  "Oh, thank you so much for your guidance. If you're not busy, can we settle the account for these medicinal pellets? I still want to buy some other things." Lin Feng saw that his tone was becoming increasingly friendly and feared he would ask about the middle-grade pellet again, so he hastily prepared to pay and leave.

  "Oh, fellow Taoist is preparing to buy something. If it's available at my Baibao Hall, I'll have someone fetch it for you. Guaranteed good quality and fair price." The Zhu surname cultivator clearly wouldn't let Lin Feng off so easily, pulling out the familiar warmth of their relationship, a stark contrast to when Lin Feng had just entered this place.

  Lin Feng thought of saying something that Baibao Hall didn't have, so he could leave quickly. However, after thinking for half a day, he couldn't think of any spiritual materials that Baibao Hall didn't have. So, he simply said: "I'd like to buy some talismans and spirit seeds." After thinking about it, since the other party already knew he was going to refine pills, and now he had the Panlong Ring, he wasn't afraid of taking up space. He might as well buy a mid-grade pill furnace at the same time. So, he added: "I also need a mid-grade pill furnace."

  "This is easy, what kind of spiritual symbols, spiritual seeds and dan furnaces do you need, write them down, I'll have someone bring them over, guaranteed to be the best, and then settle the bill together, convenient and quick." The Zhu surname cultivator was so enthusiastic that Lin Feng couldn't bear it, but he didn't dare to offend a foundation-building period cultivator's good intentions, so he could only sit down and write out the list.

  There is one lower-grade attack talisman for the Thunder and Fire attributes, and one mid-grade defensive talisman for the Earth and Water attributes. This is used for self-defense, with this, Lin Feng will not be completely defenseless against Qian Delei and the other two.

  Then there is the seed of a first-order spiritual medicine, Lin Feng has almost written all that he knows, especially the four spiritual medicines required for refining the Tiqi Dan. After thinking about it, he feels that the first-order spiritual medicine is almost complete, so Lin Feng starts writing the seeds of second-order spiritual medicine, and of course, the six spiritual medicines needed to refine the Xiaopei Yuan Dan are also the most numerous.

  He was writing, and Zhu Xiu Shi was watching beside him without speaking. Until Lin Feng finished writing, he picked it up and said: "For the first and second grade spiritual medicine materials, we mostly adopt the method of picking and using them immediately. There are many in the mountains, no need to make so much, this is a waste of spiritual field resources. Of course, if you have high demand for the materials of Tiqi Dan and Xiaopei Yuan Dan, large-scale cultivation is also possible. In fact, the main thing about planting spiritual medicine in the immortal world is to plant high-grade spiritual medicine materials. Although it takes some time, the profit is very high, which is the most cost-effective for the sects with few spiritual fields."

  Zhu surname repair naturally can't know Lin Feng has how many own open up come spiritual field, he just thinks that Lin Feng's family has a little, and obviously is open up not long ago, to plant spirit plant still not familiar with, so good words persuade.

  Lin Feng thought for a moment and agreed, so he crossed out all the first- and second-grade spiritual medicines except for the Ling species used to refine Tiqi Dan and Xiaopei Yuan Dan. It wasn't that he wanted to save on spiritual fields, but rather that he suddenly thought that since they could be found outside, why not directly transplant the living ones into the Panlong Ring? This way, it would save a lot of labor. Although it might cost some spirit stones, these spiritual medicines were used in small quantities and were only for emergency use, so they didn't need to be planted in large numbers, and therefore wouldn't cost too many spirit stones.

  After writing the list, Master Zhu called over a young servant and instructed him for a few sentences. The servant then took the list and left. After he was gone, Master Zhu once again showed his warm smile that didn't match his appearance: "We've talked for so long but I still don't know your name, let me introduce myself first. My name is Zhu Yan, 6th layer of Qi Foundation, intermediate alchemist."